Estonia had the highest gender pay gap at 21.3 per cent, followed by Austria (18.4 per cent), Switzerland and Czechia (both 17.9 per cent).
Luxembourg (-0.7 per cent) was the only country with a negative figure, meaning women earned slightly more than men.
Unadjusted gender pay gap is a significant indicator, showing the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of men and women, expressed as a percentage of the average gross hourly earnings of men.
It does not take into account education, age, hours worked or type of job.
It’s a significantly bad indicator for being unadjusted. The assumption it leads to is for people working in the same position, with the same amount of experience, and working the same amount of hours, there is a gap in wages reaching sometimes 20%, but that simply is not the average case.
When I think of the couples I know and what they do for living, in 100% of the cases the men earn more than the women not because of their sex but the nature of their work. That’s why I’m highly sceptical of how big the actual gender pay gap is. Applies in my case too; SO does assembly work in a factory and I run my own construction business.
Continue your thoughts:
Why don’t women hold the same positions? Why should they have less experience? Why wouldn’t they work the same hours?
Those are all good questions, but calling it a “gender pay gap” also sets the goal of reducing or eliminating it. If you continue that, you’ll have to ask the questions:
- Do you want to force women in the same proportional roles as men, regardless of their desires? (e.g imagine 10% of men worked in finance in Australia, would you want to force 10% of women to do the same?)
- Is a reduced or non-existent, unadjusted paygap really the outcome you desire? There are many ways to reach it and not all of them nice
- What if you do find out that the answers to the questions you pose are biological? Would that be acceptable?
I would find it much better to concentrate on opportunity inequality, something that is common to all humans. Not everybody can get good education, can be lucky enough to be born into wealth, is born in good area/country, has access to the same institutions, etc. . If we focused on those basic things, we’d have more people freely choosing their own paths and a happier society overall.
Euronews is just ragebait, clickbait, fear mongering shite
Pure sexism, institutionalized and probably very personal as well. This is making me super angry, I think it’s truly a shame for the nation. The historical data makes me even angrier, seeing how we improved substantially only to still end up with such a high pay gap.
Mädels, macht mal ne Revolution! Ich unterstütze Euch!
You should be super angry at being tricked by bad data and reported in such a way as to make you unreasonably angry for reasons that are based on feelings instead of facts:
Unadjusted gender pay gap is a significant indicator, showing the difference between the average gross hourly earnings of men and women, expressed as a percentage of the average gross hourly earnings of men.
It does not take into account education, age, hours worked or type of job.
The data is bad because a man working 40 hours for minimum wage ($7.25) makes more than a woman working 20 hrs at $12.50 would be included in this report.
Don’t fall for ragebait bullshit.
Yeah, that was my first thought as well when I first encountered this problem some time ago, however in Germany
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the difference between hourly wages is 18% on average,
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the difference in pay for the same work is 6%.
Official government source in German https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2024/01/PD24_027_621.html#:~:text=WIESBADEN – Frauen haben im Jahr,(25%2C30 Euro).
And 3) if education, hours worked, age and type of job indeed is the main factor, we should maybe ask ourselves why this is so and if it has to be this way, e. g. why female dominated jobs pay less.
That is some sexist bullshit and if you allow, I’ll remain angry.
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